Remote Home Monitoring: Passing Fad or Wave of the Future?

Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 3:27 PM EST

With an estimated 80 million households using broadband Internet by 2010, what does the future look like for remote home monitoring services? When looking into the face of a new market opportunity to quantify its magnitude, sometimes it's useful to examine where people currently spend their money and if some of this spending could be diverted to an alternative.

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